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To: dusttoyou

Stingers are overrated too much.
In fact Soviets counted 563 Stinger launches at Hinds and 89 hits with 18 aircraft totaled.
They lost some 330 helicopters at Afghan war, only about 90 of them Hinds. Most of the losses inflicted by artillery and rifle fire.
They were fast with countermeasures reducind hit ratio to 1 in 200 in just a year after Stinger came out there.

BTW, USAF and USN combined lost 3,000 jets, countless choppers are lost to Soviet SAMs and artillery in Nam.

It makes much worse statistics for US gear than Russian following your own logic, but I still can’t see either US or Russian equipment as crap out of this.


14 posted on 09/06/2011 7:28:35 PM PDT by cunning_fish
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To: cunning_fish

Again I ask, why are you trying to use logic on some people? For some the only appropriate answer is ‘it sucks!111!!!’ You’re simply wasting intelligence on them.


15 posted on 09/06/2011 11:35:16 PM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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